Thanks to the interference of those who maintain LJ, and have set the default to 'Do Not Display Date Of Birth' without telling anyone (well, without telling me for starters), I daresay no one knows or remembers that today is, in fact, my birthday.

Indeed, from 7:31 pm it will have been exactly 44 years ago that I came into this world, the first child and eldest daughter of Jacques van W. (33) and Willy van G. (28), who at the time of my birth lived with my maternal grandmother in The Hague.